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Julia Rios
@omgjulia.bsky.social
Writer, editor (Worlds of Possibility), narrator, podcaster. Queer, Latinx (half-Mexican), pronouns: They/Them
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025!

Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns w/ new books in 2026‼️

The 1st step toward that goal’s underway, w/ the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by @annvandermeer.bsky.social!)

Sale link here! bit.ly/BoneSwans10th

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November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’ve only just now seen this, and she still hasn’t reached her goal. What she’s going through is awful. Please help if you can.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Oh hey, my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set usually costs $9.99/£7.99, but right now, you can snap it up in the Leading Ladies @storybundle.bsky.social along with 9 to 11 other books for just $25 in total! Check it out:

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#romancelandia
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I'll be reading from my story 'Little Gibbet' from 'Darkness Most Fowl' on November 23rd at 1pm ET (6pm GMT) on FB, YT, and Insta - I'll post watch links asap!

You can also get the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Darkness-Mos...

#booksky #indieauthors #smallpress #horrorbooks #horror #horrorpodcast
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Reading for awards?
Here’s my eligibility (a couple of stories still to come in Nov and Dec). If you only have time to read one story, the one I’m most hoping people will keep in mind is “Through the Machine.” Thanks. 🙂
A reminder that you can find all my 2025 eligible work right here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-.... Thank you for keeping my stories in mind when nominating or voting for awards.
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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It's awards eligibility season, and this year I published two short stories, one novella, and one novel!

My short story "Mail-Order Magic" is one of the most personal pieces I've ever written, and it's free to read at @morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...
Mail Order Magic
March comes to you with Sunday Morning Transport stories by Stephanie Burgis, Eric Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Leah Cypess.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
Aw thanks for asking! I've spent the past few years turning to collaging in times of overwhelming grief or fear or pain, when I couldn't form words of my own. I didn't realize they might speak to others, too -- so I was really excited when Worlds of Possibility published "After" as a collage poem ✨
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New stuff hit the Clearance section so we can make space for holiday goodies, including this handcrafted red jasper ring by yours truly that is adjustable and one of a kind and a steal at $39.

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Hillary's Blood Moon Rising | Peculiarity Shop
Hillary found this intense red jasper and worked solder magic on it. This is adjustable, smallest size is 9. Components: jasper, zinc alloy, silver solder. Please note there are trace amounts of nicke...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What I’ve been up to this autumn. www.patreon.com/posts/plays-...
Plays, Painting, Pumpkins… | Julia Rios
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November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Just over a month until The Writhing, Verdant End releases! Want to get in on one of the year's strangest ecohorror books? Order your ebook here for only $3.99: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
And now, time for char-boo-terie (I know charcuterie is traditionally just for meat, but I’m using it in the modern American sense of a board full of random little things, and especially, the cheddar ghostie)
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Trick or treat time! We have one bowl of candy with nuts/dairy/gluten, one bowl with more allergy friendly starburst and skittles, and one bowl of stickers. We tell everyone to take whatever they like.

1. Batman, who took a sticker
2. A police officer (😬) who took skittles and a sticker.
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you haven’t gotten a paperback of The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social or Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @omgjulia.bsky.social, NOW is the time. And proceeds are going to a good cause.
Happy Halloween! ALL paperbacks are $9.99 in our store today only. Enjoy the strange horrors! #books #horror #halloween
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks:
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October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Got a cool book in the mail! Huge thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social for putting together this wonderful collection of spec poetry to commemorate the inaugural Hugo Award in poetry this year. Honored to have two poems in here, including “High School Graduation, June 2099” (w/ my reimagination of prom)
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It's my (Eric Raglin's) 33rd birthday today, which means everyone is legally obligated to snag a Cursed Morsels book. Treat yourself to a little horror and Weird fiction!
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October 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Beatrice Clayborn has

4 riding habits
20 day dresses, dinner and ballgowns
24 hats
16 pairs of gloves
7 parasols
32 pairs of shoes

and a last ditch plan to escape a marriage that will take her magic away...until she falls in love.

THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN is available wherever fine books are sold.
The Midnight Bargain – clpolk.com
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October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Congratulations to all the Ignyte Award winners!!!!
Seated? Comfy? Fantastic. Here are your winners of the 2025 #IgnyteAwards
October 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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La esperanza no es un estado mental. Requiere esfuerzo para ser mantenida: luchar contra su opuesto, igual que el valor acaba siendo el sobreponerse a los propios miedos.
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I’ll be on this one!
Tonight is a make-up podcast night. We're finally making that Torture Cinema episode we missed!

Join us at 7 PM Central as we talk about Harry and the Hendersons (1987)! Right on Twitch!

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October 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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ICYMI: Gift w/purchase!

B/c this is the 1st time a book pubbed by @rdspress.bsky.social has won the Shirley Jackson award, for a limited time you can buy a copy of my winning novella HOLLOW TONGUE & receive a FREE one from the same series:

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#booksky 📚 #Blackbooksky
Hollow Tongue + Free Novella
Buy Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce and get another novella in the series for free
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October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Pick up our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology, Why Didn't You Just Leave, if you like your ghost stories dark, scary, and smart. #halloween #ghosts #horror
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Why Didn't You Just Leave paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
It's the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn't you just leave? But if accounts of people who have stayed in haunted houses are any indication … it's never that simple.In...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM